The parts part (Makitainers)

So this time we'll be dealing with... stuff... I guess. Loads of stuff. If you dont get what this stuff is for then I direct you to my last post on the makitainer system. How much is loads of stuff you ask? Well let's find out.

 This much. So let's get started.

These fellas are steps for the stairs. As you can see 24 pieces (at the ranger pledge level)

 Up close, the underside is basically blank so I wont be showing that.

And 7 pieces of walkway.

Railing, 4 pieces (which seems kind of low, I'll have to recheck this)

Up close one side 

and up close the other side

And side pices of railing. I dont seem to have ny up close of them. Anyway 14 of them.

Sci-fi railing, endpices 6 pieces.

And up close

And from the other side

sci fi side railing 6 pices

Now we've looked a lot at railing and you're probably aksing yourself, how does it work, so before proceeding further let me explain that.

You stick a pice of end railing on a walkway like this the pins on the side of the walkway can either be used to attach it to the makitainers or...
(The mini is Angela drachen from the Warzone ressurection range, she's a 28mm mini on a 40mm base)

Pieces of side railing. These can be stuck to the side of makitainers too suing a small extra peg that I'll show below.

This is how it might look with side and end railing.

Or like this in the sci-fi case.

So on to other parts.

 Here are two ladders.

up close

and the other side. These are some of the few items bent in shipping. Now some of you may say but it's metal and you can bend it back, but look up metal fatigue and you'll realise it's not that simple. Ah well there's always soemthing I guess. But let's look at how th ladders work.


The pin goes in one of the holes on the side of the floors. same holes as the railing use. It's probably meant to hang not be attached at the bottom but I had no assembled makitainers when I made this.

Next up are these, these are the way of fioxing the aweful skulls from the wh40k looking side of the makitainer (theme). 16 of them, which might actually be the number of makitainer walls I have. Well let's look at how they work.

Maiktainer with aweful looking skull (Or awesome looking skull if you're a 40kplayer, Then you could ignore this part ^^) And one of those pieces.

And voila, skull b-gone. But it still looks kind of cheesy.

Also again there is some discrepency between walls and doors as seen below

Door piece from the 40k side. Now look what happens

NOOO! Impossible! (I haven't had a nerd quote in either of these articles yet, star wars isnt star trek but it'll have to do) Anyway it doesn't fit which means that there's no wya to cover up the skulls that you are actually most likely to see. And even if it had worked the SPIRITUS still would be there. Ah well what can you do...

Onwards

I have no freaking idea what these are, if someone knows please drop a comment below.

These are lamp posts. Well the post part. there are four of them

These are the feet of the lamp posts. suprisingly there are four of those too.


These are the lamps of the lamp posts, I'm guessing you will not be surpised by the number of them.

Lamp post lamp from the top 

Same item from the bottom. Notice the hole we'll use that later. 

 Lamppost feet from above, notice that the only diffrence between them is that this one has a hole in the top too (from this side).

 And from below. This one has a flat bottom instead of the tiers on the lamp part.

Here are all parts needed to make a streetlight/lampost (what's the diffrent really? Brittish american?)

And the finished thing, Some force may solve the issues. Notie that like the ladder the metal components are again slightly bent. Soft metal has certain drawbacks.

 These are Trusses, Unfortunatly since they only have one peg they have a habit of spinning unless you glue them. Which I'dmrather avoid doing. I'm thinging some blue tack or maybee magnets will solve the issue. 12 of them.

 These are railing for stairs twelve of them.

 

These are also raling for stairs, no it's not the same photo mirrored.


From one side


From the other. Notice the long things at the top on one side and the bottom of the other. That is so you can do this:


Linking them up several to each other. The wierd thign is you kind of have to link at least two up to make on stair able to reach to te top of a container, so I don't get why they just didn't make them twice as long.


Here we have a stair segment. When I made this I kind of screwed up. I thought the pegs were suposed to go down, they're suposed to be on the up side so that the stair hangs from the same holes as the ladders walkways and railing.


A full size stair, still built wrong.


And a finished stair hooked up wrong for size comparision. It's a bit dissapointing really the stairs look way to big for 28mm which they suposedly are made for. i get that the intention is that you should be able to place minis in the stair but I'm still no fan.

Next are these prices

And these. no closeups needed. They are blockers for those things that you use to link the stairs. They seem kind if redundant if you dont plan to make something permanent.

 These pieces

 Go like this

 And these

Go like this

And last but not least

 86 pieces (I cheated, there was no way to take this photo in a way that made it intuitive) of lose pins that can be used for any number of diffrent things.  Like stickign railing ti makitainers or makitainer to makitainer and so on.

Well that's that. Until next time folks.